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1 Pfennig - Mühlhausen in Thüringen
| Issuer | City of Mühlhausen (Thuringia) |
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| Year | 1920 |
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| Currency | Mark (1914-1924) |
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| Obverse lettering | STADT MÜHLHAUSEN 1 ★ I / THÜRINGEN ★ |
| Reverse description | An outer pearl border surrounds the coin, with the circular legend KLEINGELDERSATZMARKE running along the upper periphery, flanked by star ornaments. The date 1920 appears at the base, also flanked by stars. An inner pearl circle encloses the central field, which bears a millrind (Mühlstein-Rind) in raised relief — a heraldic charge alluding to the city's name and milling heritage. The pearl and rope-style border elements are typical of the decorative vocabulary employed in German municipal Notgeld issues. |
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Mühlhausen issued its own emergency coinage — Notgeld — during the acute coin shortages that followed Germany's defeat in 1918, when hoarding and metal requisitioning had stripped small denominations from everyday commerce. This zinc pfennig is part of that municipal stopgap, issued under city authority rather than any central body, a practice that hundreds of German towns adopted simultaneously between 1917 and 1921. The Funck catalogue documents dozens of Mühlhausen varieties from this period, reflecting how aggressively the city's administration responded to the liquidity crisis at street level.